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meng
February 15th, 2007, 07:03 PM
I was reading about difficulties users have upgrading from XP to Vista if they have a FAT32 Windows installation. Apparently this creates headaches that can only be fixed by "dropping to the command line." (Now where have I heard that before?) Just wondering if this has affected anyone here.
r4ik
February 15th, 2007, 07:16 PM
Don't know if it does fix the fat32 prob.
But i found this interesting,

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932

Gave it a go myself and it does work.
Kateikyoushi
February 16th, 2007, 05:23 AM
No, I used the final beta and the previous release and installation was just a few clicks, with the updates even Fn keys worked, funny as edgy beta was nerly the same with latest updates Fn start to work.
I would love to see this fat32 installation issue, could make my day.
insane_alien
February 16th, 2007, 09:01 AM
installing vista gets easier after the 20th time. but the pain of crippling so many new boxes just gets worse and worse :(
meng
February 16th, 2007, 09:04 AM
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=347
for those interested.
Kateikyoushi
February 17th, 2007, 01:02 AM
Poor guy that really seemed to be a good first expression about vista after coughing up that 100 USD for the OS and searching a capable PC.
spockrock
February 17th, 2007, 02:14 AM
can I ask why anyone would still want to use fat32 for their windows vista and or xp install??

I mean if I got a notebook and it was fat32 I would of reformatted to nfts and then re-installed.

to the op, its very easy...
TheKid965
February 17th, 2007, 03:04 AM
If it were a sharing issue with another Linux flavor I could see using FAT32 for XP/Vista; NTFS support in the Linux kernel isn't what it should be, and setting it up for read/write compatibility is a daunting task for many. For all that FAT32 is a lousy filesystem, it's at least mostly compatible with other OS's out there, something that cannot be said for NTFS. (I have a 200GB shared drive in my box that's FAT32 for precisely this reason.)
meng
February 17th, 2007, 03:13 AM
can I ask why anyone would still want to use fat32 for their windows vista and or xp install??
I mean if I got a notebook and it was fat32 I would of reformatted to nfts and then re-installed.
It seems this situation is most likely to affect users who purchased a notebook with Windows XP pre-installed, as some manufacturers/vendors installed on FAT32. Even so, it's amazing that Microsoft hadn't considered this possibility.
gruffy-06
February 17th, 2007, 05:40 AM
I use FAT32 on Windows XP because it is much faster than NTFS and I have compatibility with GNU/Linux. Not too sure about Windows Vista though.
Kateikyoushi
February 17th, 2007, 07:39 AM
can I ask why anyone would still want to use fat32 for their windows vista and or xp install??

I mean if I got a notebook and it was fat32 I would of reformatted to nfts and then re-installed.

to the op, its very easy...

Well yes you would. What would you do in case you do not know what a filesystem is ?
Probably use it because it works and when you have toms of files and everything well set up then comes vista.